The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage in 1998 to set up Google in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house where they used to rent out the garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 (£961) a month

January 15 2004: Google co-founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin are seen at company headquarters in Mountain View, California. Brin and Page became multi-billionaires after the online search engine leaders' stock goes public

August 19 2004: Google CFO George Reyes, chairman of the executive committee and CEO Eric E. Schmidt, senior vice president of worldwide sales & field operations Omid Kordestani, co-founder and president of products Larry Page, NASDAQ president and CEO Robert Greifeld and Google vice president for corporate development David Drummond, participate in a ceremony as Google is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange for the first time

January 6, 2006: Google co-founder Larry Page stands in front of an image of jumbled adaptors and power cords as he delivers a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada

June 19 2007: Chad Hurley (L) and Steve Chen, co-founders of YouTube, pose after a news conference in Paris. Hurley and Chen announced that the nine country sites will eventually feature locally popular content

June 18 2007: A man views solar panels on a roof at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google announced that they have switched on a solar panel installation at its headquarters which will help reduce the company's carbon footprint. Company electric hybrid cars are also charged from rooftop solar panels

August 22 2007: Samuel Widmann, head of maps, Google Switzerland, speaks during a presentation of the new Google feature 'Google Sky' at the planetarium in Hamburg, Germany. Popular mapping service Google Earth will launch a new feature called Sky, a "virtual telescope" which enables users to float and zoom in on over 100m individual stars and 200m galaxies, that the search engine hopes will turn millions of internet users into stargazers

June 23, 2008: Employees of Google work at a "tech stop" at the internet company's new office space in Chelsea Market in New York City. The new space, which is across the street from the older Google office, will house around 300 employees bringing the total number of Google employees in New York City to around 1,500

September 2 2008: The logo for the Google Chrome Web browser. Google is releasing the web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine

August 27 2008: A Google Doodle entry is shown at the Doodle Museum at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on September 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an internet search engine could change the world